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Saturday, July 7, 2012

What ‘Socialist’ Policies Will Do To America if Barack Obama has a Second Term

By Ron Radosh

Writing in the New York Times last Sunday, the paper’s Paris bureau chief Steven Erlanger asked the question: “What’s a Socialist?”
The question was undoubtedly raised because of the recent electoral
victory in France of Francois Hollande, the country’s first socialist
chief since 1988. His party also garnered a “whopping majority in
Parliament.” Erlanger continued: “What does it mean to be a Socialist
these days, anyway?”

A good question indeed, since so many conservatives have tried to make a case that Barack Obama
is a socialist. Erlanger does not write anything to directly answer
that question, but cites a conversation he had with the most well-known
Parisian intellectual, writer Bernard-Henri Levy, whom he quotes as
saying the following:

‘There are no more socialists — if they were honest they
would change the name of the party,” he told me. Socialism “evokes the
nightmare of the Soviet Union, whose leaders named themselves
socialists.” Today, he maintains, European socialists are essentially like American Democrats
— there has been no ideological left in France that matters since the
effective demise of the Communist Party, which was “the true ‘exception
francaise.’” (emphasis added)

Quotes

"If it's smart to look at the Carfax history of a used car before buying it, why should anyone object to discovering the history of politicians before electing them to serve you?" Stephen Marks

"I believe that public office is the noblest of professions, but I also believe we must hold public officials accountable. Exposing the full truth about them-the good and the bad-ultimately makes for better-educated voters and a stronger democracy." Stephen Marks in Politics Magazine.